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I’m building some tools and want a nice UI desktop application. I am not planning to make it web based or mobile, all though it might be nice to have that all other things equal.

I’m familiar with JS and web stacks, but last couple of years have been mostly using Java/Kotlin and python. I’m open to using something like Go, Dart, Swift, Typescript ect, but I don’t really want to use C++/rust due to learning curve. I need it to be cross platform ideally. I also prefer a statically typed language over dynamic. Going to be doing a lot of data visualization (graphs and interactive plots, image/video/rendering, tables, maps), some ML and formal verification.

So it looks like the options I’ve seen would probably be JavaFX, Electron, ReactNative, Flutter.

I’ve played around with JavaFX and it seems okay, some quirks but good for most part. Electron (w/TypeScript) also looks to be pretty good. I looked into Flutter and it seems to be not quite mature for desktop yet, at least from what I could find.

Curious what other people think would be good for 2023